BeautifulSoup Scraper
By Apify · Free · ApifyIntel score 85/100
Published 2023-07-18 · Last updated 2026-07-20
Crawls websites using raw HTTP requests. It parses the HTML with the BeautifulSoup library and extracts data from the pages using Python code. Supports both recursive crawling and lists of URLs. This Actor is a Python alternative to Cheerio Scraper.
Key stats
- 21.7K total runs
- 1.1K total users
- 4.75 Apify Store rating (8 reviews)
- 12 bookmarks
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How BeautifulSoup Scraper has moved
ApifyIntel has recorded BeautifulSoup Scraper in 274 daily snapshots of the Apify Store since 2025-11-21. Latest reading: 2026-10-08.
- 21 monthly users, about flat from 21 on 2026-09-08, up 5.0% from 20 on 2026-07-10
- 414 runs in the last 30 days, 96.6% of them succeeded (30 days earlier: 377 runs, 98.1% succeeded)
- 432 runs added to the lifetime total since 2026-09-08 (now 21.7K)
- Ranked #2,793 of 72,628 actors by monthly users, down 431 places since 2026-09-08
- Apify Store rating 4.75 from 8 reviews (4.98 from 6 on 2026-07-10)
Changes we detected
- 2026-04-20: 7-day users dropped by 37% (8 → 5)
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